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MOVE WELL

For the first seven years of my working life I was a roofer. For much of my time putting on the slates and tiles I was in a twisted position leaning to the right. For the first two years of my apprenticeship I carried everything the slaters needed up ladders on my shoulder.

What the heck was I thinking about!

It was only years later when I was plagued with back pain, headaches and with my wife and children pointing out how ‘lopsided’ I was that I decided to visit an osteopath. WOW! I’m now a raving fan. I go, my family go, my friends go, everyone goes and everyone whom I have recommended calls me and thanks me because it’s an area of our health that we just don’t think about enough.

Structure and posture

I didn’t realise just ...

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